Harry Crumb is a bumbling and inept private investigator who is hired to solve the kidnapping of a young heiress which he's not expected to solve because his employer is the mastermind behind the kidnapping.
A counterfeiter with a habit of "eliminating" the competition moves in next door to the Robbersons. Two cops move in with the Robbersons for a stakeout.
A small time arms dealer in South America to sell weapons to the revolutionaries, winds up negotiating the sale of an experimental plane to the nation's dictator.
After receiving an inheritance in Louisiana, Los Angeles reporter Irvin Fletcher heads to the Belle Isle plantation where he gets himself into hilarious trouble.
Director:
Michael Ritchie
Stars:
Chevy Chase,
Hal Holbrook,
Julianne Phillips
A financier agrees to take an ex to her business meeting. On the way, they run a stop sign in a small town in the middle of nowhere, and are arrested. But all is not as it seems: the courthouse and the "prison" are a maze of zany booby- traps and deadly contraptions. The antics of the captured couple as they try to escape from the mad judge and his bizarre family make up the rest of this unusual film.Written by
Goth <brooks@odie.ee.wits.ac.za>
This movie has similarities with Haunted Honeymoon (1986): Both are written, directed and acted by the same star (Dan Aykroyd for Nothing But Trouble and Gene Wilder for Haunted Honeymoon), both take place in creepy mansions and both feature an actor in drag (John Candy in Nothing But Trouble and Dom DeLuise in Haunted Honeymoon). Gene Wilder and Dan Aykroyd never directed again after these movies. Their co-stars are actors they've worked with previously. See more »
Goofs
After Chevy Chase is launched out of the pipe into the pile of bones, you can see the pad he lands on to soften the landing. See more »
Quotes
[first lines]
Fausto:
[as they leave a car and go into a building to a party]
20 minutes, hello, good-bye.
Renalda:
Ok.
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Same Song
Written by Shock-G (as Greg Jacobs), Ron Brooks and Tupac Shakur (as 2 Pac Shakur)
Produced by Shock-G (as Greg Jacobs)
Performed by Digital Underground
Courtesy of TNT/Tommy Boy Records
Sample taken from "Theme from The Black Hole"
Written by George Clinton, Jim Vitti, J.S. Theracon and Bootsy Collins
Performed by Parliament
Courtesy of Polygram Special Products, a divison of Polygram Records, Inc.
Sample taken from "I'm in the mood for love (Moody's Mood)"
Written by Jimmy McHugh and Dorothy Fields See more »
Chase and Moore are on the way to Atlantic City when they suddenly get stopped for speeding in the middle of nowhere. They're sidetracked to a bizarre, backwater town (on the verge of decomposition) that's under the jurisdiction of a cantankerous judge who doesn't take too kindly to outsiders. Everything that can go wrong does, and they find themselves fighting for their lives to escape from the murky town and its creepy, amoral inhabitants. The cast may have had a good time making it, but this dreadful comedy has no laughs, repellent gross-out gags, and an unappealing story. Talented actors are wasted in this nauseating, and practically unbearable "comedy." *
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Chase and Moore are on the way to Atlantic City when they suddenly get stopped for speeding in the middle of nowhere. They're sidetracked to a bizarre, backwater town (on the verge of decomposition) that's under the jurisdiction of a cantankerous judge who doesn't take too kindly to outsiders. Everything that can go wrong does, and they find themselves fighting for their lives to escape from the murky town and its creepy, amoral inhabitants. The cast may have had a good time making it, but this dreadful comedy has no laughs, repellent gross-out gags, and an unappealing story. Talented actors are wasted in this nauseating, and practically unbearable "comedy." *